That's not at all what this article says. It's talking about mouse overs on the popup, not on the content page that spawns it (so an actual browser can still stop them). That said, you've probably just given some marketdroids an evil idea: popup minesweeper...
Who are we trying to kid? Slippery slope. There are too many commercial linux distro, with not enough to distinguish them and just not enough market to sustain all those jobs. You know it, I know it, we all know it, we just delude ourselves otherwise.
Some commercial linux distros are going under, and Mandrake is showing all the signs that it's going to be one of them. Ask yourself this; if you bail out Mandrake (again), do you acccept that means that someone else will go under instead?
True, but once you've been told you're a filthy thief and you can't be trusted, what's your incentive to play by the rules. Reward is not the same as non-punishment and there's no reward for doing it, because you can't earn their trust.
I'm not saying it's right to access more streamed data than you're paying for, just that it's getting harder every year to condemn those that do it.
And if you think I'm being flippant, consider two things.
The US spends $400 billion a year on "defence". I "quote" that because much of that is spent on pork barrel R&D projects, on keeping people employed making tech just so we retain the capability, and on moving men and material from A to B and back again without them "defending" much of anything. We'd get exactly the same economic benefits from moving men material from A to orbit.
We got to the moon because of Cold War nationalistic fervour and jingoism. Don't underestimate the positive benefits of a nation united against a demonized foe. We just need to remember to look outwards and upwards rather than blowing money on 1984 garbage.
No, it just means you've bought the right to listen to it in stereo.
Ahem, according to Ms Rosen, you have licensed the non transferable priviledge to listen to it in stero as long as nobody else can hear it and as long as you don't try and transfer your license by selling the media.
I agree that they owe the rights owners money, but why should taxpayer money be used to punish them? Where's the social good that justifies that, especially given that music prices are clearly maintained by cartel? And when the cartel also includes the government, we've moved beyond systematic capitalism into a very special sort where demand drives supply except when sufficient bribes have been given to elected officials.
Have a look at the original purpose of copyright. What "science" or "useful art" is being promoted by Uncle Sam protecting rights holders that are now almost universally huge megacorps rather than creative individuals?
Only if you are performing under direction. The "stupid future sport" game in Starship Troopers was filmed at a college, and the audience wasn't professional extras but the college students, who were invited along to watch. When they realised that this was actually a big budget movie, some of them tried to claim performance fees, and were told to get lost because they weren't acting under direction.
Of course, it's quite possible that nobody in Starship Troopers was acting under direction, but that's another debate.
And I don't have to come in to work on Thursday, or in fact ever again! Plus I've been "released from my contract" along with everyone else in my office. Wow!
Ah, Christmas, when the goose gets fat and the corporations get lean. The best bit is that being made redundant before yule is being presented as a positive thing, because at least we knew before we went into a consumer frenzy. That's a pretty thin silver lining.
How many game players are there out there who MIGHT buy this for Linux BUT haven't already bought (or "shared") it for their Windoze install?
Note that I very carefully specified "game players". Any serious game player - i.e. people with a machine good enough to play NWN and that are statistically likely to buy games - have a Windows install. Yes they do.
So, how many of them are there? I mention this because I bought the Windows version ages ago. I simply wasn't prepared to wait for the promised Never-ever Winter Nights on Linux.
Note to developers: if you actually want to sell Linux games, you have to release them at the same time as the Windows install. Otherwise you're just polishing your dev skills.
Could he get off by singing the "I'm very sorry" song?. Join in with the counterpoint, everyone!
Heres the very sorry song. Won't you help and sing along?
Bum Bum Bum
I blew it!
He's sorry!
I knew it!
So sorry!
I'm very very sorry that I took your precious flagggg!
Just don't do it anymore you scurvy scalawaggggg!
Ack! No, I forgot, the one rule about Calvinball is that you can't play it the same way twice. Damn those cunning Norwegian prosecutors, they think of everything.
And while we're all saying how it's great that India.gov can decide whether to go with Windows based on analysing the source, Microsoft passes sackfulls of bribes to key officials under the table. India is even more systematically corrupt than the USA. This is just a smokescreen.
Yes, we've done the arithmetic. A minimal system costs $100 more than the TiVO, and gives you far less functionality than a dumb (no subscription) TiVO with the single difference that you can archive the files. But with a basic ($100 more than TiVO) setup, the quality will be so bad that you really wouldn't want to.
If you want to argue that you're just paying $50 to put the ATI card into your existing powerful PC then you go ahead and kid yourself, but at least factor in the super-quiet fan you'll need to make it bearable.
We were talking about processor speed, not space. That's a different argument. And I said "we're just not finding compelling applications to drive upgrade cycles in the home and office", so where did scientists come into it?
Games are the only way to soak up cycles, but beyond a certain point it really is soaking up rather than doing anything useful, because the programming complexity cripples development (he says from experience).
How many internet applications do you know that actually ask you what kind of ads you'd like to see? Ad supported Oprah does. Anything else? It seems like advertisers and application vendors just don't seem to get that the intenet goes both ways.
Further to that, what if they asked you if you wanted to see ads on a day to day basis? When I'm not shopping, all ads do is annoy me and fill up a bit of dark fiber. However, when I am thinking of purchasing, I really don't mind seeing ads for (e.g.) GeForce 4 Ti cards from UK retaillers. What I don't want to see - and what I'm never, ever going to respond to - is an ad for a Maibatsu Monstrosity from a US dealer.
Would it really be anathema for (e.g.) IE to ask you what ads you wanted to see today? Not profiling, not sneaky data mining, just an honest question: are you interested in buying anything, and if so, what?
Sounds likely. AMD have been saying - and demonstrating - for years that clock speed isn't the whole story.
Also, we're just not finding compelling applications to drive upgrade cycles in the home and office. We have a few years until we reach movie quality real time rendering, and after that, what do we need more speed for? If AMD and Intel are gambling on the mass market wanting to perform ever faster ripping of movies and audio, they'd better stop supporting Palladium, hadn't they?
You can carry a gun all your life but choose to never use it.
A gun is very safe when it's locked up.
A gun is very useless when it's locked up.
Statistics are other people. Statistically, they're mostly the ones watching Oprah and WWF.
What more do you need to know? Whether you're more likely to kill someone because you carry a gun. Sure you are. Whether you're more likely to get killed because you carry a gun? Debate that all you like, but if you have it, you have the choice whether to use it.
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That's not at all what this article says. It's talking about mouse overs on the popup, not on the content page that spawns it (so an actual browser can still stop them). That said, you've probably just given some marketdroids an evil idea: popup minesweeper...
Who are we trying to kid? Slippery slope. There are too many commercial linux distro, with not enough to distinguish them and just not enough market to sustain all those jobs. You know it, I know it, we all know it, we just delude ourselves otherwise.
Some commercial linux distros are going under, and Mandrake is showing all the signs that it's going to be one of them. Ask yourself this; if you bail out Mandrake (again), do you acccept that means that someone else will go under instead?
postmaster@something.gov
I try to spread it around. nsa.gov, fbi.gov, whitehouse.gov. Spread the love, people.
Going soon on eBay. Classic collectors item, never washed.
True, but once you've been told you're a filthy thief and you can't be trusted, what's your incentive to play by the rules. Reward is not the same as non-punishment and there's no reward for doing it, because you can't earn their trust.
I'm not saying it's right to access more streamed data than you're paying for, just that it's getting harder every year to condemn those that do it.
Then the terrorists have already won.
And if you think I'm being flippant, consider two things.
On which 50 + 1 - 1 = 49 (until it was obfuscated).
And how many new Slashdot stories were there last month? Sorry, I meant "the equivelant of" new stories, once you've subtracted the duplicates.
It sounds like "Oops, I did it again"
No, wait... that was just illegal in a beautiful dream I had.
Ahem, according to Ms Rosen, you have licensed the non transferable priviledge to listen to it in stero as long as nobody else can hear it and as long as you don't try and transfer your license by selling the media.
Do try and keep up!
If I remember my capitalism theory, all that demand should start driving supply real soon now.
I agree that they owe the rights owners money, but why should taxpayer money be used to punish them? Where's the social good that justifies that, especially given that music prices are clearly maintained by cartel? And when the cartel also includes the government, we've moved beyond systematic capitalism into a very special sort where demand drives supply except when sufficient bribes have been given to elected officials.
Have a look at the original purpose of copyright. What "science" or "useful art" is being promoted by Uncle Sam protecting rights holders that are now almost universally huge megacorps rather than creative individuals?
It is if you're an astronomer. If it's the same power of ten, it's as near as makes no difference.
Only if you are performing under direction. The "stupid future sport" game in Starship Troopers was filmed at a college, and the audience wasn't professional extras but the college students, who were invited along to watch. When they realised that this was actually a big budget movie, some of them tried to claim performance fees, and were told to get lost because they weren't acting under direction.
Of course, it's quite possible that nobody in Starship Troopers was acting under direction, but that's another debate.
And I don't have to come in to work on Thursday, or in fact ever again! Plus I've been "released from my contract" along with everyone else in my office. Wow!
Ah, Christmas, when the goose gets fat and the corporations get lean. The best bit is that being made redundant before yule is being presented as a positive thing, because at least we knew before we went into a consumer frenzy. That's a pretty thin silver lining.
How many game players are there out there who MIGHT buy this for Linux BUT haven't already bought (or "shared") it for their Windoze install?
Note that I very carefully specified "game players". Any serious game player - i.e. people with a machine good enough to play NWN and that are statistically likely to buy games - have a Windows install. Yes they do.
So, how many of them are there? I mention this because I bought the Windows version ages ago. I simply wasn't prepared to wait for the promised Never-ever Winter Nights on Linux.
Note to developers: if you actually want to sell Linux games, you have to release them at the same time as the Windows install. Otherwise you're just polishing your dev skills.
Could he get off by singing the "I'm very sorry" song?. Join in with the counterpoint, everyone!
Ack! No, I forgot, the one rule about Calvinball is that you can't play it the same way twice. Damn those cunning Norwegian prosecutors, they think of everything.
And while we're all saying how it's great that India.gov can decide whether to go with Windows based on analysing the source, Microsoft passes sackfulls of bribes to key officials under the table. India is even more systematically corrupt than the USA. This is just a smokescreen.
Yes, we've done the arithmetic. A minimal system costs $100 more than the TiVO, and gives you far less functionality than a dumb (no subscription) TiVO with the single difference that you can archive the files. But with a basic ($100 more than TiVO) setup, the quality will be so bad that you really wouldn't want to.
If you want to argue that you're just paying $50 to put the ATI card into your existing powerful PC then you go ahead and kid yourself, but at least factor in the super-quiet fan you'll need to make it bearable.
We were talking about processor speed, not space. That's a different argument. And I said "we're just not finding compelling applications to drive upgrade cycles in the home and office", so where did scientists come into it?
Games are the only way to soak up cycles, but beyond a certain point it really is soaking up rather than doing anything useful, because the programming complexity cripples development (he says from experience).
How many internet applications do you know that actually ask you what kind of ads you'd like to see? Ad supported Oprah does. Anything else? It seems like advertisers and application vendors just don't seem to get that the intenet goes both ways.
Further to that, what if they asked you if you wanted to see ads on a day to day basis? When I'm not shopping, all ads do is annoy me and fill up a bit of dark fiber. However, when I am thinking of purchasing, I really don't mind seeing ads for (e.g.) GeForce 4 Ti cards from UK retaillers. What I don't want to see - and what I'm never, ever going to respond to - is an ad for a Maibatsu Monstrosity from a US dealer.
Would it really be anathema for (e.g.) IE to ask you what ads you wanted to see today? Not profiling, not sneaky data mining, just an honest question: are you interested in buying anything, and if so, what?
Sounds likely. AMD have been saying - and demonstrating - for years that clock speed isn't the whole story.
Also, we're just not finding compelling applications to drive upgrade cycles in the home and office. We have a few years until we reach movie quality real time rendering, and after that, what do we need more speed for? If AMD and Intel are gambling on the mass market wanting to perform ever faster ripping of movies and audio, they'd better stop supporting Palladium, hadn't they?
What more do you need to know? Whether you're more likely to kill someone because you carry a gun. Sure you are. Whether you're more likely to get killed because you carry a gun? Debate that all you like, but if you have it, you have the choice whether to use it.
In other words: YANAL, just another Angry Young Guy spouting off. Thanks for your irrelevant opinion.
It would suck if Slashdot editors had to do the job they're paid for and actually edit out duplicate submissions.
Happened to one of my college buddies too. When they kicked him out, he screamed "They can't do this to me! I'm a wizard!"
It's funny... as past history. Not such a giggle at the time, as I remember.